No, there are two of us.97fxdwg:Don't forget NASDS. Am I the ONLY one here with that certiification?
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No, there are two of us.97fxdwg:Don't forget NASDS. Am I the ONLY one here with that certiification?
cnctina:No, there are two of us.
Heffey:You can only teach in a similar environment in which you were taught.
Jeffrey
97fxdwg:Don't forget NASDS. Am I the ONLY one here with that certiification?
NJDevil:I feel OW instructors can get certified in the carribean or parts where there is clear water for visual reasons but I believe they must ALSO BE CERTIFIED FOR THE STATE THEY ARE TRAINING OTHERS.
Certainly diving in New Jersey or New York is significantly different from diving in tropical waters that is like a swimming pool. How are you prepared for the areas when all you dive is a swimming pool environment.
friscuba:Dude.... Look at NAUI. 50 logged dives required for ITC
billmach:when I went looking to get my OW cert. I did alot of shopping around and feeling out dive instructors. one guy who offered to cert me in a private class
wanted me to go online and take a scuba classoom course he recomended.
I checked it out just to see it and the test was bunk! anytime you got a question wrong all you had to do go back one page and it reset the module. you could do that
as often as you liked until it gave you 100%. thats totally wrong NO STUDY NEEDED!
When I called him to ask him why he would appove of this he said thats what he did 6 weeks earlier??????? and this guy is an instructor?????? Oh and by the way he was NAUI and so is the 7 module test. I thankfully went to a local LDS and got certified
by an awesome PADI trainer.No short cuts .
So I really dont think it has to do with the certifing agency
It has to do with the competence of the instructor.
Sideband:I don't believe NAUI has online testing. SDI/TDI does (our shop is primarily NAUI but several instructors have crossovers to various agencies) and we get several of them through each month. From what I'm told by the shop owner, those misses do register and the instructor can see that you missed them. That's my understanding anyway. I've not personally seen the test results.
Joe
NASDS is no longer an independant training agency. They are now part of SSI.97fxdwg:Don't forget NASDS. Am I the ONLY one here with that certiification?